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μοχθηρία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μοχθηρία

Structure: μοχθηρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. bad condition, badness
  2. badness, wickedness, depravity, of the rascaldom

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἂν δ’ ὡσ τοιούτοισ αὐτοῖσ πεφυκόσι χρώμενοσ, ὥσπερ ἰατρὸσ ὀδοντάγραισ καὶ ἀγκτῆρσιν, ἤπιοσ φαίνῃ καὶ μέτριοσ ἐκ τῶν ἐνδεχομένων, εὐφρανῇ τῇ σῇ διαθέσει μᾶλλον ἢ λυπήσῃ ταῖσ ἑτέρων ἀηδίαισ καὶ μοχθηρίαισ, ὥσπερ κύνασ, ἂν ὑλακτῶσι, τὸ προσῆκον αὐτοῖσ ἐκείνουσ οἰόμενοσ περαίνειν, καὶ οὐκέτι λήσεισ πολλὰ λυπηρὰ συνεισάγων, ὥσπερ εἰσ χωρίον κοῖλον καὶ ταπεινὸν ἐπιρρέοντα, τὴν μικροψυχίαν ταύτην καὶ τὴν ἀσθένειαν, ἀλλοτρίων ἀναπιμπλάμενοσ κακῶν. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 7 1:3)
  • ἀγκτῆρσιν, ἤπιοσ φαίνῃ καὶ μέτριοσ ἐκ τῶν ἐνδεχομένων, εὐφρανῇ τῇ σῇ διαθέσει μᾶλλον ἢ λυπήσει ταῖσ ἑτέρων ἀηδίαισ καὶ μοχθηρίαισ· (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 7 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. bad condition

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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